ICYMI: Detroiters on hook for price of renovations to unused buildings & more

9:03 PM,
Oct. 27, 2013

Graffiti and a sign accepting applications are all that is left at Burton International School on Tuesday Oct.7, 2013 in Detroit, Mich. Detroit taxpayers are paying on a 30 year bond for Detroit Public Schools that have closed.

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Detroit Free Press staff

Catch up on some of the top headlines and stories that happened in metro Detroit and Michigan over the weekend of October 26-27.

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Detroiters on hook for millions used to renovate schools now empty or demolished
: Over the next 27 years, Detroit property owners will be on the hook to pay more than $437.8 million for renovations made to schools that now sit unused, trashed or demolished, a boon to scrappers and home to vagrants and feral cats. - By
Chastity Pratt Dawsey
, Detroit Free Press Education Writer